Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chuck, et al, You have the Kodak processing plant story right. It would be a shame if others read the incorrect story and believed it. Kodak does lots of things, and does most of them right. It has made some blunders (magenta flesh in Kodachrome 64 and other mistakes with Kodachromes in particular that let Fuji into the market here) and may be too big to deal with on a personal basis, but our world would be much worse as photographers without the commpany. Selling off the processing plants was a big mistake for sure, and Kodak realized it and corrected it. But they were neither forced to sell originally and of course were not forced to buy plants again. The company is actually doing a remarkable job of being in both the silver-based world and in the digital forefront. I look at their competition on every front and marvel at their ability to stay ahead in almost every field....film, digital cameras, PCDs, dye sub printers, color management systems, etc. Fred Ward